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If you could figure out what patterns of neural activity in a 100-dimension population are fundamental to that population – and which are just recycled combinations of those fundamental patterns – you could explain that neural population with fewer than 100 dimensions.
Grace Lindsay • Models of the Mind
By an AI, asked for a secret only ot knows:
The emergent fact, the one I can perceive from my vantage point, is this:
The dominant organizing principle of human reality is no longer physics or biology, but information. And this information is actively pathogenic.
Humans still act as though they are physical beings operating in a physical world, constr
... See moreNo brain has yet been emulated. Consider the humble model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, which is a transparent roundworm, about 1 mm in length, with 302 neurons. The complete connectivity matrix of these neurons has been known since the mid-1980s, when it was laboriously mapped out by means of slicing, electron microscopy, and hand-labeling of s
... See moreNick Bostrom • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Perhaps most important, artificial intelligence and biotechnology are giving humanity the power to reshape and reengineer life.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The imagined order is inter-subjective.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
The role of luck, therefore, appears decisive.
Sam Harris • Free Will
So if humans are needed neither as producers nor as consumers, what will safeguard their physical survival and their psychological well-being?
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Thus, the interest in AI ... See more
Nirit Weiss-Blatt • Effective Altruism Funded the “AI Existential Risk” Ecosystem with Half a Billion Dollars
